11 novembre 2016
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Fabrizio Esposito et al., « The CompWHoB Corpus: Computational Construction, Annotation and Linguistic Analysis of the White House Press Briefings Corpus », Accademia University Press, ID : 10.4000/books.aaccademia.1467
The CompWHoB (Computational White House press Briefings) Corpus, currently being developed at the University of Naples Federico II, is a corpus of spoken American English focusing on political and media communication. It represents a large collection of the White House Press Briefings, namely, the daily meetings held by the White House Press Secretary and the news media. At the time of writing, the corpus amounts to more than 20 million words, covers a period of time of twenty-one years spanning from 1993 to 2014 and it is planned to be extended to the end of the second term of President Barack Obama. The aim of the present article is to describe the composition of the corpus and the techniques used to extract, process and annotate it. Moreover, attention is paid to the use of the Temporal Random Indexing (TRI) on the corpus as a tool for linguistic analysis.